Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we’re moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn’t.

Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn’t try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

How can we help President Obama?

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

I’m not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player’s ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence… I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

Bring them on.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.